Job 32:11 Explained in Context

Selected verse

Verse 11. Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons, whilst ye searched out what to say.

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Role in This Section

Job 32:11 advances the thought unit with the words “Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons, whilst ye searched out what to….” Elihu directs attention through “Behold, I waited for your words” as Elihu Explains His Youthful Silence and Claims Spirit-Given Insight develops.

Read It With

Job 32:6–32:14

Read Job 32:11 with 32:6–32:14. Read alone, “Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons, whilst ye searched out what to…” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Elihu says age made him afraid to speak but argues that divine breath, not years alone, gives understanding, and he claims the friends failed to answer Job.

Why It Needs Context

Job 32:11 depends on 32:6–32:14; isolating “Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons, whilst ye searched out what to…” would detach a poetic premise, image, response, or transition from Elihu and “Elihu Explains His Youthful Silence and Claims Spirit-Given Insight.”

Read Job 32:6–14 together

Why these verses belong together: Job 32:6–32:14 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained speech movement: “Elihu Explains His Youthful Silence and Claims Spirit-Given Insight.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.

Verse 6. And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew you mine opinion.

Verse 7. I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.

Verse 8. But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.

Verse 9. Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.

Verse 10. Therefore I said, Hearken to me; I also will shew mine opinion.

Verse 11. Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons, whilst ye searched out what to say.

Verse 12. Yea, I attended unto you, and, behold, there was none of you that convinced Job, or that answered his words:

Verse 13. Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man.

Verse 14. Now he hath not directed his words against me: neither will I answer him with your speeches.

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Read Job 32:6–32:14 — Elihu Explains His Youthful Silence and Claims Spirit-Given Insight

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Biblical text

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Exact location: Job 32:6–32:14, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus

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